Purgatory part 1 (Cantos 1 – 11) 4/9 Purgatory was a clever invention of the Church around the 11th century. In Purgatory - a sort of halfway house to Heaven the dead who have not been so bad in life suffer, but not so much and after a bit perhaps can be allowed to enter Heaven. Back home folks can pray for their souls (and pay for priests to do so!) in the hope that this will help the souls on their way. But of course nobody knows whether it works. Here the sins to be expiated are things like gluttony, pride, sloth, lust. Virgil explains all this to Dante. AM108SB20 2020 dur: 2hrs 7 mins